I choose to believe that this is a set up for 300 III: The Peloponnesian War in which Athens and Sparta fight and people just have no idea who to root for.

I'd be pretty sure it was David, rather than Richard, Attenborough who narrated Planet Earth. Not that Dickie wouldn't have been fabulous, mind.

Not doing enough reading at the moment, but I'm quite enjoying Laird Barron's The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, a collection of horror short stories. Granted, the first story I particularly bordered on self-parody in terms of manly man spouting manly dialogue, but the subsequent (less manly) stories have been…

American Gothic is legitimately awesome. It features that rarest of TV things: a competent bad guy. Lucas Buck (with a B) is still one of my favourite TV characters.

So what, in this context, is the equivalent of the failed June Rebellion?  The passing of an effective tort reform bill in each of the States?  The extension of AEDPA?  An 8-1 Supreme Court judgment, written by Clarence Thomas, affirming that actual innocence is not a ground for setting aside a conviction?  All of the…

The easiest way is to buy one off a retiring barrister (or newly appointed judge).  Somewhat creepily, someone once offered me a cheap wig and gown owned by a barrister who had recently died.

Berkowit28, that's correct.  I practice in Australia (although I was born in the UK and undertook a mini-pupillage with a commercial set there before migrating).

The rules around barristers robing (covers both wigs and robes) vary quite a lot by jurisdiction.

In addition to all the issues you've mentioned, to me, Ava's testimony, although perhaps exculpatory of the criminal charges, opened up an entirely separate problem about whether she'd breached her fiduciary duties.

Wait.  So you're saying there wasn't a Dungeons and Dragons ride?

As a Law Talking Guy, the fact that Suits takes the law relatively seriously is one of the things I enjoy most about it.

It's not true.  As Dr Octagon's uncle, I should know.

I got my first (of two) tattoo at 17 in 1997: an anarchy A on my right shoulder.  The tattooist said that he hadn't done one of them in a very long time…

I think it actually wrapped up a couple of years ago with the decision of the Supreme Court in Stern v Marshall.  See here: http://www.scotusblog.com/c….

Chris Brown is clearly the James Franco of criminal activity.

I'm with you.  The first post-rock gig I ever saw was GY!BE - who started with The Dead Flag Blues - supported by Sigur Ros - who had recently released Agaetis Byrjun - and it was just amazing.  It is the only time I've been moved to tears by music (although this may be because I am souless automaton) and genuinely…

And their cover of 'Wax and Wane' by, of all people, The Cocteau Twins is awesome.

Wong Kar Wai's Ass was fabulous - mesmering, introspective, oneiric…

"I once auditioned for The Real World and it was one of the strangest and saddest experiences of my post-grad life."

Stir of Echoes is the best movie about a shirtless Kevin Bacon digging holes ever made.